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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke[n 1] (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer. [1][n 2] Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, [1][6] he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary ...
Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of the Russian SFSR. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna, where his father had been posted.
Alfred Schnittke was a postmodernist Russian composer who created serious, dark-toned musical works characterized by abrupt juxtapositions of radically different, often contradictory, styles, an approach that came to be known as “polystylism.”
Alfred Schnittke died in Hamburg on 3 August 1998 following a fifth stroke. His funeral in Moscow on 10 August 1998, attended by thousands of people, was a tribute of honor and admiration to the greatest Russian composer since Shostakovich. For many critics, “Schnittke was the last genius of the 20th Century.
Historia von D. Johann Fausten, opera in 3 acts and an epilogue, libretto by Jörg Morgener (Jürgen Köchel) and Alfred Schnittke (1991–1994) ( Youtube) Gesualdo, opera in 7 tableaux, a prologue and an epilogue, libretto by Richard Bletschacher (1993) ( Youtube, part 1 Youtube, part 2)) Ballets. Labyrinths, ballet in five episodes.
The German-Russian composer Alfred Schnittke is without doubt one of the 20th century’s most important composers. His works have been a regular feature in concert programmes for decades – and his name also regularly comes up in the worlds of film music, music theatre and even ballet.
Jun 11, 2018 · SCHNITTKE, ALFRED. SCHNITTKE, ALFRED (1934–1998), composer. The son of a German Jewish father and a German mother, Schnittke was born in Soviet Russia. His first music studies between 1946 and 1948 were connected primarily with Vienna, where his father was working after World War ii.
